My 7 year old's behaviour is really really worrying me at the moment and I just need to ask whether anyone else has one that behaves like this - my dh keeps saying she is mad and on times I have to say she does apear slightly deranged !
So - she is a lovely little girl, at school she is angelic - wouldn't say Boo to a goose etc. In fact school were worried last year that she was too quiet.
I have never recognised this side of her - she has always been really feisty and argumentative at home ! She is 7 and a quarter now - but still cries at least once a day and rarely a day goes by without some sort of tantrum - usually a screaming fit punctuated by "I hate you" and door slammings !
She has been particularly bad this Xmas and I am really wondering what to do with her !
She is an only child and demands 100% attention all the time - when she doesn't get it she kicks off ! She is extremely impatient, seems to have a very short fuse and a fierce temper, and immediately flies into a rage when she doesn't get what she wants instanmtly !
Is this what 7 yr old girls are like ? Do they grow out of it ?? When ?? and has anyone got any strategies for dealing with this kind of behaviour ???
We've tried sitting down and discussing it with her, we've done star charts, pasta jars, 1-2-3 magic and nothing seems to work. She just doesn't seem to care !